4/540 Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Olinda
photo: Leah Wheatley This is photographing the William Ricketts Sanctuary Let’s dive into photographing the William Ricketts Sanctuary, shall we? William Ricketts Sanctuary reopened on Monday 3 August, after a storm shut it down back in 2021 and a long, careful clean up brought it back. A few…
There’s a good chance you have asked yourself this before: should I photograph in black-and-white? It sounds like a question about taste. It is not. Try this on one of your favourite photographs. Maybe a portrait, or a street scene, whatever is sitting in the camera and convert…
How to Turn Your Photos Into a Story, Not Just a Camera Roll Ten years ago, I flew to London with my family. I took with us my favourite film camera, the Bronica SQ-B, and my ol’ workhorse, a Nikon D4S. They’re big cameras, and thus a kit…
Watch the video https://youtu.be/pG2ALMN_ImM Wondering where’s the best photo walk in the Dandenong Ranges? There’s a place in the Dandenong Ranges that doesn’t show up on any map. Locals barely talk about it. Nobody knows who built it. And every winter, right around the solstice, it goes quiet,…
But, is that the most important part of photography? There is a particular kind of confidence that comes from knowing, before the shutter even fires, exactly where an image is going. The photographer sees the print on the wall, the client’s nod, the gallery label, the entire downstream…
f/11 @ 1/2sec f/2.8 @ 1/30th Did you know this about aperture? There are two photographs. Same bridge, same dark water below, same morning light pressing down through intermittent cloud over the Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens in Sherbrooke — that quietly magnificent patch of the Dandenong Ranges where…
What happens when you shoot Ilford HP5 that’s been sitting in a box for 35 years? Expired film is an experiment, not a gamble. I recently got lucky; a box full of old 35mm and 120 film landed in my hands, and it was loaded with Ilford HP5…
Leica SL2 | ISO 800 | f/10 | 1/8th Inside the small, dark room that almost feels like a country bar in an old western, Laz Smith stands at the front of the room, showing the music film clip he was working on. The video stops abruptly. The…
“Learn the rules of photography, then learn how to break them.” That doesn’t work for me. I was never a good student. I didn’t want to be told what to learn. Copying & blindly reciting answers from a blackboard never felt right. I needed to understand the why.…
Do this first with your new camera There is a setting on your camera you have probably never thought to turn off. It sits there, doing what it was designed to do, showing you your photograph the moment after you take it. It feels helpful. It feels like…
